Sunday, June 28, 2009
ooooooo what fun boats can be!
ok so i now have the chance to trade boats with a culumbia 8.1 (27.2ft) that has sailed as far as to africa... well anyway it has now turned into a "free" boat to me the guy gave me a call to say the boat is mine! but that he can not own another boat do to money... ok... so on monday im going to get up with the va marine police and get them to run the title.... if its all clear, well i own that boat along with its new 5k chartplotter, 2 dinghys, vhf, 2 depthsounders, and on and on plus like a zillion millon spare parts! now it could be to good to be true sooo who know im hoping it is very true as i love this boat! but who realy knows. anyway if it is true i will have the bucc up for sale and will have to sell it quick!
Monday, June 8, 2009
carpet and headliner update
well im going to force my self to work on the port aft side. once the carpet and headliner is down i will be spraying all surfaces with a water bleach mix im thinking 50/50 to kill any mold and mildew! then i will prime with the killz then start painting! i will then start the fun part of removing port lights and well... i know i will find core rot! so epoxy epoxy epoxy!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
demo work part 1
i have started the demo work on the carpet hull sides and headliner both are from the factory 31 years old and seen a fair shair of use! its not to bad of a job, getting to some of the carpet in the aft cabin is going to be fun! i have 1 bag full of trashed headliner and carpet! and i have only done one part about 7 feet long and 5 feet tall! iv got a lot more ahead of me! i will get some photos and a film up soon!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
paint
paint, im going to rip out the carpet on the hull sides and the foam head liner as well thus i will have to paint both the hull sides and the "roof" and hide the wires with cedar strips. im going to paint the hull white and i may go with a shell color for the roof. it will be about $150 which is still not all that bad. i have stared ripping out carpet in the v berth and the next time im at the boat i will rip some out above the inboard motor, and on the wood slats that go aroung the inboard. i will also drill a small hole in the cabin sole to look for water in the bilge foam, i will also start ripping out the flooring that is in the head it is a linolum. and most has come off with years of use. i will also oil the teak in the head. i will also let the seats in the salon air out. i will start work on a new tiller cover soon along with new winch covers, and sheet bags.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
this is the essay i will turn in but this one does not have photos!
Finding My Dream Boat and Live aboard
Back in October of 2008, I started looking for a live aboard boat. It needed to be small, cheap, and easy to single hand. At the time I was fourteen, and as you can imagine looking at boats anywhere from Annapolis Maryland to Norfolk Virginia is not very easy since I can’t drive. Therefore, I kept to Craigslist, and Spin sheets magazine (spin sheets is the local sailing magazine). I wanted something about 25-30 feet but smaller would be better! I found a 1979 Coronado 25 in need of some TLC but, she came with many extras. She had a headroom of five feet eight inches. I learned about that boat, and had spent more than a month researching and looking at the photos. The owner and I reached an agreement on the price and delivery, but just as the delivery was set, and I was going to get the title, the owner called me to say he had sold the boat to someone else! I was crushed. It took me about two weeks to even look for another boat. During that time, I was so mad at the seller for selling the boat out from under me. Then I started looking at boats again and I realized that his actions should not make me lose my dream.
In a few days I found a Coronado 27 in Baltimore Maryland, an Ericson 25, an Irwin 25, and an O’day 25. I went to see the Ericson 25 first because it was much closer to my house in Richmond. The boat looked great from the outside! I went down below and saw that the cabin leaked everywhere and all the cushions were soaked! I still looked at the boat because I knew that could be fixed. I walked around on deck and much to my dismay as I walked up on the starboard fore deck I felt a slight give. On the way back from the fore deck I checked the soft spot again. I put all my weight on the soft spot and it was so weak my foot almost went right into the cabin! I eliminated that boat and had three more to check out. I then eliminated the Coronado 27 in Baltimore Md, because it was to far from my house. The Irwin 25 would not work because it needed a new centerboard. So I proceeded to look at the next boat an O’day 25 which seemed like a nice boat.. It was just two days before I was going to see the O’day. I found out the dock I would be keeping the boat only has has a MLW depth of three feet. This eliminated all the boats because the drafts were too great for the slip.
I resumed my search and while on Creigslist I found a 1978 Bayliner Buccaneer 27. I emailed the seller to ask if the boat was still for sale, and while I waited I researched the boat. All I could find was information on how bad this brand of boat was. By this time I was pretty discouraged. Then I found a MSN group of all the Buccaneer owners. It had a lot of information on people who had Buccs, but it seemed so many needed new bulkheads, floors, or they had rotted hull and deck cores. I was almost scared to look at the boat. I decided I would go see the boat anyway but I was certain it was going to be a pile of rotten wood, After I got to Leeward Marina in Newport News Virginia, we waited for the seller to show up. I had not even seen the boat in photos. I only knew that it had a diesel inboard that did not work. It also had an outboard on the stern. We waited about twenty minutes for the seller to show up, and then right as we were backing out of our parking space to leave, he called to say he would be there in three minutes. So we waited and he finally showed up. We walked down the dock and got aboard the boat and I walked quickly around on deck. Of course, it was the worst day of the winter and was about thirty degrees with the wind blowing at 30- 40 knots. I got down below and checked out the cabin. The owner left, and I went back to our car, talked to my mom, and went to show her. I said “I’m getting this boat”! So I called the seller to say I would put down an offer. We waited for him to come back or call back and then we decided to leave. Then he called when we were about a half an hour away from the boat. I talked him down $500 from his original price and then wrote a check. That was it! I now owned my first boat! After a lot of disappointment I now had a boat that was close to what I wanted and in good shape.
Now the real fun started. I went down to the boat the next weekend to get her ready for a ten hour delivery sail! I went to turn on the navigation lights. Nothing! I tried again but nothing. So I checked the battery and made sure all the connections were nice and tight. Still nothing. Then I took the distribution panel off to check for broken wires or a blown fuse. Still nothing. So I checked the battery zincs and they were as dry as the desert! I left to buy the distilled water and just to be safe a new deep cycle battery. I tested it out and still got nothing! Unfortunately the delivery sail was going to start at four am. So I talked to a guy at West Marine and he had the “bright” idea of buying the suction cup dinghy navigation lights and taping them to get the right direction. I used some duct tape, and they worked! I also had to get a new outboard as the one that came with the boat is a 1969 Johnson sailmaster 4hp that did not work. So I went with a brand new Mercury 9.9 four stroke long shaft with electric start. The best thing is that it cost $300 more than the boat!
We left for the Chesapeake Bay at five in the morning, with our little dinghy nav lights leading the way. Then we ran into our first problem! I did not know the mast height and there was a bridge in front of us! I figured that the mast was about 40 feet, but we could not find the bridge height on our charts. Then we found on the chart that the bridge’s vertical clearance was 25 feet! We tried calling the bridge to see if we could get an opening but no bridge tender responded. We called the Coast Guard and after a half hour they figured it was a bridge tunnel. We then motored the rest of the way because there was no wind. Just as we were entering the North River in Mobjack Bay, the wind piped up but we did not sail because we where already in sight of the dock. After docking we had a small christening party! I later found out that I was lucky that we had not tried to sail as a clevis pin in the standing rigging was missing its cotter pin!
Now that I have my boat at her new slip I have been working out all of her kinks, and preparing her to live aboard. For example tearing out the 30 year old carpet on the walls, and painting and re “formicaing” the galley. I’m also rigging the boat for single-handed sailing and installing a few “goodies”. Owning a boat and fixing her up is a dream come true for me.
Nathaniel Frost is an avid sailor, sail maker, canvas worker, and loves to work on and around boats, he is also planning on sailing aboard the 105 foot schooner Alliance next year on a voyage to Panama! You can keep up with his work and the s/v MAD JIBE http://www.sailblogs.com/member/livaboard/
Back in October of 2008, I started looking for a live aboard boat. It needed to be small, cheap, and easy to single hand. At the time I was fourteen, and as you can imagine looking at boats anywhere from Annapolis Maryland to Norfolk Virginia is not very easy since I can’t drive. Therefore, I kept to Craigslist, and Spin sheets magazine (spin sheets is the local sailing magazine). I wanted something about 25-30 feet but smaller would be better! I found a 1979 Coronado 25 in need of some TLC but, she came with many extras. She had a headroom of five feet eight inches. I learned about that boat, and had spent more than a month researching and looking at the photos. The owner and I reached an agreement on the price and delivery, but just as the delivery was set, and I was going to get the title, the owner called me to say he had sold the boat to someone else! I was crushed. It took me about two weeks to even look for another boat. During that time, I was so mad at the seller for selling the boat out from under me. Then I started looking at boats again and I realized that his actions should not make me lose my dream.
In a few days I found a Coronado 27 in Baltimore Maryland, an Ericson 25, an Irwin 25, and an O’day 25. I went to see the Ericson 25 first because it was much closer to my house in Richmond. The boat looked great from the outside! I went down below and saw that the cabin leaked everywhere and all the cushions were soaked! I still looked at the boat because I knew that could be fixed. I walked around on deck and much to my dismay as I walked up on the starboard fore deck I felt a slight give. On the way back from the fore deck I checked the soft spot again. I put all my weight on the soft spot and it was so weak my foot almost went right into the cabin! I eliminated that boat and had three more to check out. I then eliminated the Coronado 27 in Baltimore Md, because it was to far from my house. The Irwin 25 would not work because it needed a new centerboard. So I proceeded to look at the next boat an O’day 25 which seemed like a nice boat.. It was just two days before I was going to see the O’day. I found out the dock I would be keeping the boat only has has a MLW depth of three feet. This eliminated all the boats because the drafts were too great for the slip.
I resumed my search and while on Creigslist I found a 1978 Bayliner Buccaneer 27. I emailed the seller to ask if the boat was still for sale, and while I waited I researched the boat. All I could find was information on how bad this brand of boat was. By this time I was pretty discouraged. Then I found a MSN group of all the Buccaneer owners. It had a lot of information on people who had Buccs, but it seemed so many needed new bulkheads, floors, or they had rotted hull and deck cores. I was almost scared to look at the boat. I decided I would go see the boat anyway but I was certain it was going to be a pile of rotten wood, After I got to Leeward Marina in Newport News Virginia, we waited for the seller to show up. I had not even seen the boat in photos. I only knew that it had a diesel inboard that did not work. It also had an outboard on the stern. We waited about twenty minutes for the seller to show up, and then right as we were backing out of our parking space to leave, he called to say he would be there in three minutes. So we waited and he finally showed up. We walked down the dock and got aboard the boat and I walked quickly around on deck. Of course, it was the worst day of the winter and was about thirty degrees with the wind blowing at 30- 40 knots. I got down below and checked out the cabin. The owner left, and I went back to our car, talked to my mom, and went to show her. I said “I’m getting this boat”! So I called the seller to say I would put down an offer. We waited for him to come back or call back and then we decided to leave. Then he called when we were about a half an hour away from the boat. I talked him down $500 from his original price and then wrote a check. That was it! I now owned my first boat! After a lot of disappointment I now had a boat that was close to what I wanted and in good shape.
Now the real fun started. I went down to the boat the next weekend to get her ready for a ten hour delivery sail! I went to turn on the navigation lights. Nothing! I tried again but nothing. So I checked the battery and made sure all the connections were nice and tight. Still nothing. Then I took the distribution panel off to check for broken wires or a blown fuse. Still nothing. So I checked the battery zincs and they were as dry as the desert! I left to buy the distilled water and just to be safe a new deep cycle battery. I tested it out and still got nothing! Unfortunately the delivery sail was going to start at four am. So I talked to a guy at West Marine and he had the “bright” idea of buying the suction cup dinghy navigation lights and taping them to get the right direction. I used some duct tape, and they worked! I also had to get a new outboard as the one that came with the boat is a 1969 Johnson sailmaster 4hp that did not work. So I went with a brand new Mercury 9.9 four stroke long shaft with electric start. The best thing is that it cost $300 more than the boat!
We left for the Chesapeake Bay at five in the morning, with our little dinghy nav lights leading the way. Then we ran into our first problem! I did not know the mast height and there was a bridge in front of us! I figured that the mast was about 40 feet, but we could not find the bridge height on our charts. Then we found on the chart that the bridge’s vertical clearance was 25 feet! We tried calling the bridge to see if we could get an opening but no bridge tender responded. We called the Coast Guard and after a half hour they figured it was a bridge tunnel. We then motored the rest of the way because there was no wind. Just as we were entering the North River in Mobjack Bay, the wind piped up but we did not sail because we where already in sight of the dock. After docking we had a small christening party! I later found out that I was lucky that we had not tried to sail as a clevis pin in the standing rigging was missing its cotter pin!
Now that I have my boat at her new slip I have been working out all of her kinks, and preparing her to live aboard. For example tearing out the 30 year old carpet on the walls, and painting and re “formicaing” the galley. I’m also rigging the boat for single-handed sailing and installing a few “goodies”. Owning a boat and fixing her up is a dream come true for me.
Nathaniel Frost is an avid sailor, sail maker, canvas worker, and loves to work on and around boats, he is also planning on sailing aboard the 105 foot schooner Alliance next year on a voyage to Panama! You can keep up with his work and the s/v MAD JIBE http://www.sailblogs.com/member/livaboard/
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
this is the 2 draft
Finding My Dream Boat and Liveaboard
Back in October of 2008, I started looking for a live aboard boat. It needed to be small, cheap, and easy to single hand. At the time I was fourteen, and as you can imagine looking at boats anywhere from Annapolis Maryland to Norfolk Virginia is not very easy since I can’t drive. Therefore I kept to Craigslist, and Spin sheets magazine (spin sheets is the local sailing magazine). I wanted something about 25-30 feet but smaller would be better! I found a 1979 Coronado 25 in need of some TLC but she came with many extras. She had a of headroom five feet eight inches. I learned about that boat, and had spent more than a month researching and looking at the photos. We reached an agreement on the price and delivery, but just as the delivery was working out and the night before I was going to get the title, the owner called me to say he had sold the boat! I was crushed. It took me about two weeks to even look for another boat. During that time, I was so mad at the seller for selling the boat from out under me. Then I started looking at boats again I realized that his actions should not make me lose my dream.
In a few days I found out a Coronado 27 in Baltimore Maryland, an Ericson 25, an Irwin 25, and an O’day 25. I went to see the Ericson 25 first because it was much closer. The boat looked great from the inside! I went down below and saw that the cabin leaked from everywhere. all the cushions where soaked! I still looked at the boat because I knew that could be fixed. I walked around on deck and much to my dismay as I walked up on the starboard fore deck, I felt a slight give but passed over it. On the way back from the fore deck I checked the soft spot again, I put all my weight on the soft spot and it was so weak my foot almost went right into the cabin! I had now eliminated one boat and had three to go. So I proceeded to look at the next boat a O’day 25 it seemed like a nice boat. I had eliminated the Coronado 27 in Baltimore Md. The Irwin 25 would not work because it needed a new centerboard. It was Thursday afternoon and only two days before I was going to see the O’day when I found out the dock I would be keeping the boat at only has three feet of water. This eliminated the other boats because the drafts where too great for the slip. I resumed my search and While on Creigslist I found a 1978 Bayliner Buccaneer 27. I emailed the seller to ask if the boat was still for sale, and while I waited I researched the boat. All I could find was information on how bad this brand of boat was. by this time I was discouraged. Then I found a MSN group of all the Buccaneer owners. It had a lot of info on people who had Buccs, but it seemed so many needed new bulkheads, floors, or they had rotted hull and deck core. I was almost scared to look at the boat. I decided I would go see the boat anyway but I was certain it was going to be a pile of rotten wood, when I got to Leeward Marina in Newport News Virginia, and waited for the seller to show up, I had not even seen the boat in photos. I only knew that it had a diesel inboard that did not work. It also had a outboard on the stern. We waited about twenty minutes for the seller to show up, right as we were backing out of our parking space, he called to say he would be there in three minutes. So we waited and he showed up. we walked down the dock and got aboard the boat and I walked quickly around on deck. Of course, it was the worst day of the winter and was thirty degrees with the wind blowing at 30- 40 knots. I got down below and checked out the cabin. The owner left, and I went back to our car, talked to my mom, and went to show her. I said “I’m getting this boat”! So i called the seller to say would put down an offer, we waited for him to come back or call back and then we decided to leave. then he called when we were about a half an hour away from the boat. I talked him down $500 from his original price and then wrote a check, that was it I now owned my first boat! After a lot of disappointment I now had a boat that was close to what I wanted and in good shape.
Now the real fun started. I went down to the boat the next weekend to get her ready for a ten hour delivery sail! I went to turn on the navigation lights. Nothing! I tried again but nothing. So I checked the battery, and made sure all the cables were nice and tight. Still nothing. Then I took the distribution panel off to check for broken wires or a blown fuse. Still nothing. So I checked the battery zincs and they were as dry as the desert! I left to buy the distilled water and just to be safe a new deep cycle battery. I tested it out and still got nothing! Unfortunately the delivery sail was going to start at four am. So I talked to a guy at West Marine, and he had the idea of getting the suction cup dinghy navigation lights and taping them to get the right direction. I used some duct tape, and they worked! I also had to get a new outboard as the one that came with the boat is a 1969 Johnson sailmaster 4hp, I went with a brand new Mercury 9.9 four stroke long shaft with electric start. The best thing about it is it cost $300 more than the boat!
we left for the Chesapeake Bay at five in the morning, with our little dinghy nav lights leading the way. Then we ran into our first problem! I did not know the mast height and there was a bridge in front of us! I figured that the mast was about 40 feet, but we could not find the bridge height on our charts. Then we found on the chart that the bridge vertical clearance was 25 feet! We tried calling the bridge to see if we could get an opening but no bridge tender responded. we called the Coast Guard and after a half hour they figured it was a bridge tunnel, and it was. We then motor the rest of the way because there was no wind. Just as we where entering the North River in Mobjack Bay, the wind piped up but we did not sail because we where already in sight of the dock. After docking we had a small christening party! I later found that it was to my luck that we had not tried to sail as a clevis pin was missing its cotter pin!
Now that I have my boat at her new slip I have been working out all of her kinks, and preparing her to live aboard. for example tearing out the 30 year old carpet on the walls! I’m also rigging the boat for single-handed sailing and installing a few “goodies”. Owning a boat and fixing her up is a dream come true for me.
Finding My Dream Boat and Liveaboard
Back in October of 2008, I started looking for a live aboard boat. It needed to be small, cheap, and easy to single hand. At the time I was fourteen, and as you can imagine looking at boats anywhere from Annapolis Maryland to Norfolk Virginia is not very easy since I can’t drive. Therefore I kept to Craigslist, and Spin sheets magazine (spin sheets is the local sailing magazine). I wanted something about 25-30 feet but smaller would be better! I found a 1979 Coronado 25 in need of some TLC but she came with many extras. She had a of headroom five feet eight inches. I learned about that boat, and had spent more than a month researching and looking at the photos. We reached an agreement on the price and delivery, but just as the delivery was working out and the night before I was going to get the title, the owner called me to say he had sold the boat! I was crushed. It took me about two weeks to even look for another boat. During that time, I was so mad at the seller for selling the boat from out under me. Then I started looking at boats again I realized that his actions should not make me lose my dream.
In a few days I found out a Coronado 27 in Baltimore Maryland, an Ericson 25, an Irwin 25, and an O’day 25. I went to see the Ericson 25 first because it was much closer. The boat looked great from the inside! I went down below and saw that the cabin leaked from everywhere. all the cushions where soaked! I still looked at the boat because I knew that could be fixed. I walked around on deck and much to my dismay as I walked up on the starboard fore deck, I felt a slight give but passed over it. On the way back from the fore deck I checked the soft spot again, I put all my weight on the soft spot and it was so weak my foot almost went right into the cabin! I had now eliminated one boat and had three to go. So I proceeded to look at the next boat a O’day 25 it seemed like a nice boat. I had eliminated the Coronado 27 in Baltimore Md. The Irwin 25 would not work because it needed a new centerboard. It was Thursday afternoon and only two days before I was going to see the O’day when I found out the dock I would be keeping the boat at only has three feet of water. This eliminated the other boats because the drafts where too great for the slip. I resumed my search and While on Creigslist I found a 1978 Bayliner Buccaneer 27. I emailed the seller to ask if the boat was still for sale, and while I waited I researched the boat. All I could find was information on how bad this brand of boat was. by this time I was discouraged. Then I found a MSN group of all the Buccaneer owners. It had a lot of info on people who had Buccs, but it seemed so many needed new bulkheads, floors, or they had rotted hull and deck core. I was almost scared to look at the boat. I decided I would go see the boat anyway but I was certain it was going to be a pile of rotten wood, when I got to Leeward Marina in Newport News Virginia, and waited for the seller to show up, I had not even seen the boat in photos. I only knew that it had a diesel inboard that did not work. It also had a outboard on the stern. We waited about twenty minutes for the seller to show up, right as we were backing out of our parking space, he called to say he would be there in three minutes. So we waited and he showed up. we walked down the dock and got aboard the boat and I walked quickly around on deck. Of course, it was the worst day of the winter and was thirty degrees with the wind blowing at 30- 40 knots. I got down below and checked out the cabin. The owner left, and I went back to our car, talked to my mom, and went to show her. I said “I’m getting this boat”! So i called the seller to say would put down an offer, we waited for him to come back or call back and then we decided to leave. then he called when we were about a half an hour away from the boat. I talked him down $500 from his original price and then wrote a check, that was it I now owned my first boat! After a lot of disappointment I now had a boat that was close to what I wanted and in good shape.
Now the real fun started. I went down to the boat the next weekend to get her ready for a ten hour delivery sail! I went to turn on the navigation lights. Nothing! I tried again but nothing. So I checked the battery, and made sure all the cables were nice and tight. Still nothing. Then I took the distribution panel off to check for broken wires or a blown fuse. Still nothing. So I checked the battery zincs and they were as dry as the desert! I left to buy the distilled water and just to be safe a new deep cycle battery. I tested it out and still got nothing! Unfortunately the delivery sail was going to start at four am. So I talked to a guy at West Marine, and he had the idea of getting the suction cup dinghy navigation lights and taping them to get the right direction. I used some duct tape, and they worked! I also had to get a new outboard as the one that came with the boat is a 1969 Johnson sailmaster 4hp, I went with a brand new Mercury 9.9 four stroke long shaft with electric start. The best thing about it is it cost $300 more than the boat!
we left for the Chesapeake Bay at five in the morning, with our little dinghy nav lights leading the way. Then we ran into our first problem! I did not know the mast height and there was a bridge in front of us! I figured that the mast was about 40 feet, but we could not find the bridge height on our charts. Then we found on the chart that the bridge vertical clearance was 25 feet! We tried calling the bridge to see if we could get an opening but no bridge tender responded. we called the Coast Guard and after a half hour they figured it was a bridge tunnel, and it was. We then motor the rest of the way because there was no wind. Just as we where entering the North River in Mobjack Bay, the wind piped up but we did not sail because we where already in sight of the dock. After docking we had a small christening party! I later found that it was to my luck that we had not tried to sail as a clevis pin was missing its cotter pin!
Now that I have my boat at her new slip I have been working out all of her kinks, and preparing her to live aboard. for example tearing out the 30 year old carpet on the walls! I’m also rigging the boat for single-handed sailing and installing a few “goodies”. Owning a boat and fixing her up is a dream come true for me.
MOB, COB, and sinking, or fire
this is a area many boaters go to just the Coast Guard list and thats it! im going the more safe route onbaord. for man over board, i have 1 large orange life ring, 1 small white ring, a throw line, a crab pot man over board bouy, a boarding ladder, a rope boarding ladder, and jack lines. for fire onboard or for helping other boats i have two fire extinguishers and plan on getting one more large one before moving aboard, i also have a manual bilge pump that i will put a long hose on so i could dip it in the water and hose out a hire! my small electric bilge pump will also have 30 feet of hose so i can put it in the water and pump water to put out a fire, of course after time that will sink a boat but... in case of a fire at say the marina or if i need to wash a anchor rode off etc. and for sinking, i have the wood plugs for thru hull fittings. i will also make a few "hole mats" that are hung over a hole to help keep water out.
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